Clifford D. Simak
Clifford D. Simak
Clifford Donald Simakwas an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards and by colleagues with one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 August 1904
CountryUnited States of America
Clifford D. Simak quotes about
technology civilization path
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology
talking propagandist knows
I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.
abhorrent welcome logic
We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe
moving magic-moments feelings
I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.
consciousness universe
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
feature happened light matrix neither nor single utter
It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.